Pick a Pinterest tutorial.....

On Sunday night I decided I had worked hard for the last few days and instead of getting on with the things on my ever increasing to-do list I would do something just for me! I went to my Pinterest Polymer Clay tutorials board and picked something that wouldn't take too long. 

I picked this

from http://polymerandmetalclay.com.au/flowerpetaltute.html . 

This is a free tutorial and I really appreciate people sharing them for free.  I know how much effort it takes to take all those photos and try and find words to describe what you are doing - that make sense! I had a few moments of confusion with this one but I got there. I think the original colours used were more striking. Mine is a very pearlescent purple I mixed from Kato clay (more on pesky pearlescent Kato in a blog post soon!).

Pin It 

I am not quite sure if I shall string it as a pendant with the oval beads either side, or have the oval beads as earrings, or do something completely different with it. What do you think? I know a few people have had problems commenting on my blog, if you do please let me know by email - carajaneuk(at)gmail.com or on facebook or Twitter

As you can see by my 'pin it' button I am getting sucked deeper into the world of pinterest, it's a great place to be - so inspiring!

Thanks for reading my blog, I hope you are having a great week and find some time to do something, just for you too!

Cara

Design Seeds colour Palettes

I love Pinterest. The best thing about it is it doesn't take too much time, I can use it to file away pictures I want to see again and I can have a quick flick through to see what everyone else has come across but (so far) I haven't spent half my day sat there playing with it.

I came across a new web site today, courtesy of a pin by the amazingly talented Zuda Gay Pease called design seeds. It's a collection of beautiful pictures and the  corresponding colour palettes.  Here's one I particularly like.

I am trying to be more organised and co-ordinated in my creating so I might have a hunt around to find some funky colour schemes to play about with. Although of course I should be trying to keep up with the colour palette challenge on flickr, not been doing very well with that recently.  I've got some new creations to show you, and some I can't show you just yet. Watch this space.
I'm also excited about going to the London Polymer Clay Group meeting this weekend.
have a colourful day!
Cara x

Pinterest

Oh dear I have made the mistake of looking at Pinterest! There goes half my life playing with it! But how wonderful to be able to pin up pictures from everywhere in one place. I have a lot of favourites on flickr and I have lots of starred or tagged blog posts in Google Reader but now I can keep them all together!

I still haven't quite figured it all out yet but I have made myself 2 pinboards, one for polymer clay inspiration and one to collect together peoples wonderful polymer clay photo tutorials. I shall spend some time hunting around seeing who else has interesting polymer clay pin boards - if you've got one let me know and I'll go check it out.
 I'm CaraJaneUK on Pinterest (there was already a CaraJane). If there's no new clay work here for a while - blame Pinterest!
Cara x